MossRoad
Super Moderator
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2001
- Messages
- 63,296
- Location
- South Bend, Indiana (near)
- Tractor
- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
AAARRRRRRR!!! Looks like a giant Pirate's hook! Very heavy duty. Nice job. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Ripper Plow
- Thread starter stray
- Start date
- Views: 6716
BAGTIC
Silver Member
Here is a link to a commercial variation of a static (no moving parts) trencher.
http://www.skid-steer-attachments.net/trencher.htm
It does not dig very deep but I suspect most of us do not need to go deeper that a foot or so very often. Most places the ground does not freeze deep enough to require burying irrigation pipe deeper than that.
If I had one the first thing I would do is to use it for planting an asparagus patch. Might also be useful for planting berries, potatoes, etc. Faster than digging separate holes and a trench would allow one to lay in a buried drip irrigation tube than ran the length of the row.
http://www.skid-steer-attachments.net/trencher.htm
It does not dig very deep but I suspect most of us do not need to go deeper that a foot or so very often. Most places the ground does not freeze deep enough to require burying irrigation pipe deeper than that.
If I had one the first thing I would do is to use it for planting an asparagus patch. Might also be useful for planting berries, potatoes, etc. Faster than digging separate holes and a trench would allow one to lay in a buried drip irrigation tube than ran the length of the row.
BobRip
Elite Member
Maybe you could attach a tube and wire spool holder and use it to bury cable.
Bob Rip
Bob Rip
FOURTEEN
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2004
- Messages
- 1,042
- Location
- Efland - Triangle of North Carolina.
- Tractor
- 2004 Power Trac PT-425
Nice job!!
But in the heavy red clay of NC the PT-425 doesn't have enough power to use anything bigger than the Power Trac Potato Digger!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
But in the heavy red clay of NC the PT-425 doesn't have enough power to use anything bigger than the Power Trac Potato Digger!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
OP
stray
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Jan 18, 2004
- Messages
- 709
- Location
- east TN
- Tractor
- Power-trac 422 2003 model and 428 January 2015 model
Yes 14. I think that the potato plow would put more power in its bite because the digging point is closer to the PT. I would recomend to anyone building one that they stick close to the PT design. I built mine like I did because my dad wanted it that way. It was mostly for him. (But it does work well)